Heat spell, dry season hurting western Alberta crops
The extreme heat and lack of precipitation is being felt on farms across Alberta, and there's a high probability of it hurting this year's yield.

The extreme heat and lack of precipitation is being felt on farms across Alberta, and there's a high probability of it hurting this year's yield.
After the first incident left a Nazi symbol on his election lawn sign, Jordan Barrett thought it was just someone upset about his voting intentions.
RCMP say two victims injured in a horrific crash east of Calgary earlier this week were family members visiting from France.
Courtney Johnson was driving her eight year old twins, Taylor and Hailey, to school headed east towards Cranbrook on Highway 3 on the morning of Thursday, June 1.
The man who was found not criminally responsible in the stabbing deaths of five people at a house party in Brentwood more than nine years ago is seeking more freedoms.
A bail hearing for a man accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting women in Calgary will continue later this month.
Re-elected Premier Danielle Smith will announce her new cabinet and take questions from reporters on Friday, nearly two weeks after winning Alberta's election.
Calgary city council has reconsidered its decision to vote against recommendations made by an expert panel to address the city’s housing affordability crisis.
It’s expect to be a hot summer across southern Alberta, which has officials reminding those planning to cool off in a river or body of water to be cautious and plan ahead.
Marshal Iwaasa disappeared three and a half years ago and the mystery of what happened to him is now part of a streaming documentary series.
Courtney Johnson was driving her eight year old twins, Taylor and Hailey, to school headed east towards Cranbrook on Highway 3 on the morning of Thursday, June 1.
More than 100 members of the Royal Canadian Air Force have touched down in Lethbridge for annual search and rescue exercises.
A Lethbridge man faces charges following a Tuesday incident where he is alleged to have barricaded himself inside a northside home.
Over 100 South African firefighters danced in an airport in Alberta where they will help Canada's efforts in combating wildfires.
Donald Trump said Thursday that he has been indicted on charges of mishandling classified documents at his Florida estate, igniting a federal prosecution that is arguably the most perilous of multiple legal threats against the former U.S. president as he seeks to reclaim the White House.
The federal budget implementation bill passed the House of Commons on Thursday, after days of Conservative attempts to block it.
The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear the appeal of an Alberta woman who was unwilling to be vaccinated in order to get a life-saving organ transplant.
Canada's special rapporteur on foreign interference has ended ties with crisis communications firm Navigator, his office confirmed on Thursday.
What happens to the brain when you take gravity away? According to a new study looking at astronauts both before and after space travel, that experience causes physical changes that researchers believe requires at least three years between longer missions to recover from.
In the wake of the Bank of Canada’s unexpected rate hike, economists are pointing to further tightening in the near term.
As wildfires rage across Canada in what’s being called an unprecedented season, one expert says there’s more that individuals and communities can do to adapt and prevent forest fires from causing widespread devastation.
Rescuers in Washington state are praising the resourcefulness of a 10-year-old girl who survived on her own for more than 24 hours in the rugged terrain of the Cascade mountains after getting lost while out with her family.
Air pollution from wildfires remained well above healthy levels across much of southern and northern Ontario and several communities in British Columbia and Alberta on Thursday.